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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005
INSIDENEWS
Scalpers unscathed by new policies
Despite new Athletics Department policies and enforcement, ticket scalpers continue to work the crowds before home basketball games. Students say the policies won't affect scaling where it is most common; the residence halls. PAGE 1A
Students 'tea up' to Japanese culture
Students preparing to travel to Japan this summer spent yesterday learning the art of traditional Japanese tea ceremonies. The students are traveling to Japan through the Kansas Asia Scholars program and the Center for East Asian Studies. They will spend this semester attending meetings and workshops designed to acclimate them to Japanese culture. PAGE 1A
You've got flowers
Because of the date of Valentine's Day and a new online business, flower deliveries have increased by four times in Lawrence. Many lovers chose to show their affection in the form of a surprise delivery today. PAGE 1A
Women's sports showcase
The women's basketball team helped celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day at the game against Colorado yesterday. The Athletics Department brought nine of the 11 varsity teams to the game, as well as many former letter winners. PAGE 1A
From Kansas to Washington
Jerry Seib, Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief, returned to his roots to receive the William Allen White Foundation Award on Friday. The award is given every year in honor of the School of Journalism's namesake. PAGE 2A
INSIDEOPINION
Spirit's OK. but fans should keep it clean
Spirit
Excitement and school spirit are all part of the fun at basketball games, but fans need to realize when they cross the line. PAGE SA
Share the love today
Erica Prather explains why Valentine's Day shouldn't be a day of depression for singles. Spread the love with your family, friends and those who make a difference PAGE 5A
Keen Big Brother out
Bob Johnson knows the importance of living in a society where the right to privacy is respected. But the freedom to live a private life is not always guaranteed in the United States, PAGE 5A
INSIDESPORTS
Big Dub feasts on Buffaloes
Kansas men's basketball team knocked off conference rival Colorado on Saturday, 89-60. Senior forward Wayne Simien led all players in scoring, with 25, and rebounding, with 12. Aaron Miles, senior guard, rebounded from a disappointing performance at Kansas State with 17 points and nine assists. PAGE 18
Victory breaks conference losing streak
Running over records
The women's basketball team has doubled last season's conference win total by beating Colorado 76-54. The four wins represent the first time since the 2000-01 season that the team has beaten four conference opponents. PAGE 1B
Benson Cheson sang broke a 37-year-old Kansas record when he ran the 3000-meter race in under eight minutes. Right now his time is more than seven seconds longer than the NCAA record and about four seconds longer than the Big 12 record. PAGE 1B
Column: Texas Tech's big Red Raider
Texas Tech is led by one of the most controversial coaches in men's college basketball. Ryan Colaiani, however, believes he's one of America's best coaches and could give Kansas fits when Texas Tech in Lubbock tonight. PAGE 1B
Raseball suffers tough defeat
Baseball lost three games to the Cardinal of Stanford this weekend. The team was swept with losses 7-3, 9-2 and 7-6. The team's next action is on Wednesday, when it opens its home season against San Diego State at Hoglund Ballpark. PAGE 2B
Big Monday match-up
After defeating Colorado, the men's basketball team wanted to look forward to Texas Tech, rather than back at Colorado. Tech and Kansas meet at 8 p.m. in an ESPN Big Monday game. PAGE 38
Men finish 11th. Price has career low
The Kansas golf team rewrote the record books with several record-breaking performances in Walkoloa, Hawaii, this weekend. The Jayhawks carded a school record 31 under par, but lost to Oklahoma State, which carded a 63 under par. PAGE 8B
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'Jayhawk journalist' Seib receives award with pride
ALUMNI NEWS
Fall'77 'Kansan editor speaks about past issues
Rachel Seymour/KANSAN
Jerry Seib, recipient of this year's William Allen White Foundation Award and Wall Street Journal Washington bureau chief, spoke to the crowd at Woolduff Auditorium in the Kansas Union about the value of objectivity in journalism Friday afternoon. Seib also pointed out the need to analyze both sides of a situation or fairly and discuss the idea more explicitly in the classrooms.
BY NATE KARLIN
nklarin@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The School of journalism honored one of its own last Friday, bringing Jerry Seib back to the school for its annual celebration of William Allen White.
Seib, now The Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief, recalled memories and hot-topic issues when he was the editor of The University Daily Kansan in Fall 1977. During his years at the University he met his best friends and his future wife, Barbara Rosewicz, who served as Kansan editor in Spring 1978.
Seib received the William Allen White Foundation Award Friday afternoon at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The award is given annually to journalists who follow in the footsteps of William Allen White, for whom the school is named.
Title IX was an issue that was fresh in the minds of Seib and Rosewicz. Title IX is the 1972 federal code that outlawed the federal funding for sports based on sex.
It was a controversial story at the time he was Kansan editor because the law was passed before he arrived at the University, but the Athletics Department and University administration were still struggling to deal with it at the end of the decade. Seib said.
There was a lot of gray area for interpretation so no one really knew how to handle the situation, he said.
While the administration tried to make sense of the law, students were eager to see results, Seib said. Women thought the Athletics Department was moving too slowly on the issue.
They felt strongly about Title IX and wanted the process to move quickly so they could receive funding for their sports. Seib said.
Rosewicz said athletics departments around the country are conti-
uing to deal with Title IX.
"It's still a problem," Rosewicz said. "There are accusations that money for women sports is killing wrestling programs."
While Seib and Rosewicz were editors, they endured a running feud with then-athletics director, Clyde Walker.
The Kansan staff speculated at the time that this feud led Walker to resign. Rosewicz said.
Walker, who was often criticized of favoring alumni dollars over students' enjoyment, resigned the day after the final Spring issue came out, so the Kansan could not report on the situation, she said.
Walker wanted to move the KU-MU football game to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., which did not please many students. Seib said.
The Kansan editorialized the situation and the idea to move the game eventually died. Seib said.
He didn't know what the correlation was between the death of the venue change and Kansan editorialization, but the outcome was something he said he does not regret.
Dan Bowerman, who worked with Seib for the Kansan, said the basketball team was not as good as it was now.
"The popular TV show was the 'Gong Show' and people wanted to gong Ted Owens," Bowerman said. The "Gong Show" was an amateur talent show from 1976-78. If an act was horrible, judges could hit a gong at any time during the performance that ended it.
A native of Hays, Seib credits the School of Journalism for all of his accomplishments.
"I strongly suspect there has never been a recipient who appreciated this more than me," he said during his Friday speech. "Nothing makes me prouder than to say I'm a Jayhawk journalist."
About 250 people attended the ceremony.
Seib was the 57th journalist to win the award, which has been given since 1950. Other recipients of the award include Walter Cronkite and Cokie Roberts.
—Edited by Nikola Rowe
HEALTH
Two decades of silence broken
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUTCHINSON — For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly oblivious to the world around her — the victim of a drunken driver who struck her down as she walked to her car. Today, after a remarkable recovery, she can talk again.
Scantlin's father knows she will never fully recover, but her newfound ability to speak and her returning memories have given him his daughter back. For years, she could only blink her eyes — one blink for "no," two blinks for "yes" — to respond to questions that no one knew for sure she understood.
Sarah Scantilin was an 18-year-old college freshman on Sept. 22, 1984, when she was hit by a drunk driver as she walked to her car after celebrating with friends at a teen club.
After two decades of silence, she began talking last month.
Scantlin still suffers from the effects of the accident. She habitually crosses her arms across her chest, her fists clenched under her chin. Her legs constantly spasm and thrash. Her right foot is so twisted it is almost reversed. Her neck muscles are so constricted she cannot swallow to eat.
The driver who struck Scantlin served six months in jail for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.
Scantlin started talking in mid January but asked staff members not to tell her parents until Valentine's Day to surprise them, Trammell said. But last week she could not wait any longer to talk to them.
Scantlin's doctor, Bradley Scheel,
said physicians are not sure why she
suddenly began talking but believe critical pathways in the brain may have regenerated.
The breakthrough came when the nursing home's activity director, Pat Rincon, was working with Scantlin and a small group of other patients.
Rincon had her back to Scantlin while she worked with another resident. She had just gotten that resident to reply "OK," when she suddenly heard Sarah behind her also repeat the words: "OK, OK."
Staff members brought in a speech therapist and intensified their work with Sarah. Trammell said.
The nurses say she thinks it is still the 1980s. Family members say Scantlin's understanding of the outside world comes mostly from news and soap operas that played on the television in her room.
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